Table and chair combination



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B. M. YOUNG TABLE AND CHAIR COMBINATION Filed April 4. 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR flag am? 1 ou/3y BY M //W UK I ATTORNEY,

Patented July 21, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN MONTGOMERY YOUNG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TABLE AND CHAIR COIJIBINATION.

Application filed April 4,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJA'MIN M. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Table and Chair Combinations, of which the following is a full, clear, and concise description.

My invention relates to improvements in table and chair combinations, such as are suitable for use in a home or an ofiice, and in which a number of chairs are detachably connected with or housed within a table, so as to save space and yet leave the table free to do duty as a table, either with or without the chairs afiixedthereto as the case may be, and without impairing or materially changing either the appearance or the utility of the table.

More particularly stated,'I seek to provide atable of ornamental appearance and a number of chairs associated with the table and adapted for use in connection therewith but admitting of uses independent of the table, the construction of the table and chairs being such that when the chairs are not in active use they may be connected with and housed within the table so as to become practically a part thereof, so that the table car rying the chairs is adapted to be practically used as a table, the chairs when arranged for this purpose being practically invisible, or at least hardly noticeable, and being severally folded so as to occupy a minimum of space.

My device is well adapted for packing and shipping, for the reason that the table and chairs can be either treated as so many separate units, or assembled and treated as a single unit of composite form.

Reference is made to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, and in which like reference characters inclicate like parts throughout the several figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device, and shows a number of chairs nested within and carried by the table.

Figure 2 is an end elevation of the mechanism shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 33 of Figure 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Figure 4 is a section on the line l-4c of 1923. Serial No. 629,742.

Figure 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Figure 5 is a section on the line 55 of Figure 3, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows, certain parts being broken away.

Figure 6 is a substantially vertical section through one of the chairs, showing the same as unfolded and ready for ordinary use.

Figure 7 is a section on the line 7-7 of Figure 6, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Figure 8 is a side form of my invention.

The top board of the table appears at9, and abutting the under side of the top board are a pair of side rails 10, 11 and a pair of end rails 12.

Supporting the parts just mentioned are a pair of end posts 13, 14:, carrying a pair of cross beams 15, 15,,and so fashioned at the bottom to form a pair of supporting legs 16 and 17.

Extending crosswise of the table and secured to the top board Sand side rails 10 and 11 are a pair of partitions 18 and 19, carr ing supporting strips 20, 20. Resting upon these supporting strips and located between the partitions 18 and 19 is a drawer 21.

The end posts 13, 1 1 are provided with notches 22, 23. Extending into these notches, and thus reaching the entire distance from one end post to the other, is a shelf 24. This shelfcarries a pair .of cross pieces 25 and 26, and supported upon these cross pieces is a cross board 27. A drawer 28 is slidably supported upon the shelf 24-, and is located between the cross pieces 26 and below the cross board 27, as may be understood from Figure 3.

The construction of the chairs may be understood from Figures 6 and 7. The seat of the chair appears at 29, and the back thereof at 30, the chair back having a general outline or configuration similar to that of the end posts 13 and '14,. as may be seen by comparing Figure 7 with Figure 2. v

The chair seat 29 carries a skirt 31, having a substantially rectangular form. .A pair of legs 32 are connected by a'brace bar 33, as indicated in Figure 7, and are connected by hinges 3 1 with the chair bottom'29. Thus the legs 32 and brace bar 33may as a unit be folded againstthe under side of elevation of another the chair bottom 29. Another pair of legs 35 are connected with the bottom by means of hinges 36. The legs 35 carry brace bars 37, mounted upon them by means of journal pins 40., lashers 41. encircle these journal pins, and are located between the legs 35 and the brace bars 37. -Eachleg 32 is provided with a groove 33 and each brace bar 37 is provided witha tongue 39 for extending into the correspondinggroove.

The brace bars 37 may swung upwardly upon. the journal pins40, and thus brought substantially parallel with thelegs 35'." This done, the legs 35 and brace bar. 37 may as a unit be swung up fiatagainst the chair bottom. Such being the case the portion of: the chair below the chair seat 29 isfolded into a small compass. The manner in which the chairlegs and parts carried thereby are thus folded is indicated by broken lines in Figure 6. f

The manner in which the chairs, when folded as just described, are nested. within the table be understood froinFigures 3, 4 and 5. One of the-chairs, shown'in the right hand upper corner in Figure 3, being folded as above described, is firstlnverted and then brought into the position indicated in Figure 3. That is to, say, the'skirt 31 is brought up; against the under side of the top board 9, so that the chair back rests at its lower end upon the adjacent crossbe'am 15, the chair bottom 29 being brought loosely against .the partition j 19. Next another chair, similarly folded asabove described, is brought into the position indicated in the right hand lower portion o'f Figure 3:. The skirt 31 of the chair last mentioned. now rests upon the shelf 24, the back' of'tl1e chair resting flatlyagainst the back of the chair first fitted intothe table as ,above described." The top surface of, the cross board 27 is now flush with the adjacent top surface of the chair seat29.

As shown at the right of Figure 3,, two chairs are readily housed within one end of the table. Similarly two other chairscan be housed in the opposite end of the table, as indicated in Figure 1, so that the table as a whole will now appearas shown in this figure.

It will be noted that the chair. backs 30 and the end posts 13 and 14 now present as a, whole substantially the general appearance of a pair 'of'end posts. Byvaryingthe thickness of the chair backs and the .end posts 13 and 14,1the appearance of thefinished table with the chairs nested in it can be varied within reasonable limits.

I It will be noted that the table, with the chairs nested init as above described and as indicated. in Figure 1, may be used as a table, and as such it has all the functions it would have if the chairs were removed.

It will also be noted that the chairs, when removed from the table and unfolded, as indicated in Figures 6 and 7, have all of the functions of ordinary chairs. While thesechairs are well adapted for use with this particular table, they can be used in connection with tables of other kinds, or even independently of any table.

In some instances I employ the construction indicated in,Figure 8. At the top of the table are a pair of doors 42, 42, provided with, knobs 43, 43, and mounted upon hinges 44, 44. Either or both of the doors 42, 42, may be opened-for the purpose of facilitating the, introduction of the chairs and the removal thereof, and then closed;

It is obvious that my device is, adapted for use in libraries, dining rooms, telephone or; telegraph ofiices, schools, hospitals, ticket ofiices, 'steamboats, steamships, and in fact in all, relations, where chairs and vtables are used,.-jand wherethe saving of space is important.

' By means of myinvention it is. practicable to take, a table already'constructed or even one which has been used, and by fitting it with chairs. having folding legs, to'bring the tableinto substantially the sameform it would have if'it had been built origin-ally forthe use here contemplated. Thus Rmy invention is useful in. converting furniture already in'existence. as, well as in thecconstruction of new} outfits.

It is obviousthat by aid of myinvention the beneficial results above. contemplated may be developed withtables of many different styles and. sizes, and that any number of chairs can be, aceomodated;..also thatfthe styles ofthe chairs may be varied, within widelimits.

I do. not limit myself to. the precise mechanism shown, as variations may. bemade therein without departing from my invention, the scope of which is, commensurate with my claims.

Havingthus described. my invention, what I claim as. new i and desire to secure. by Letters Patent is as follows: V

1. A tableand chair combinationcompris ing a table provided with a pair of end posts, and with a top board and ashelf, anda plurality of chairs separate from said table andadapted to benestedtogethen in pairsand fitted between saidtop board .and said shelf, each pair when nested together and. in position fitting snugly; against an end post and reaching from the,top board to the shelf. V V

2. A device. of the character described comprising a table. provided with a/pair of end posts ofarbitrary configuration-and a plurality of chairs, each having a back with a configuration similar to that of the end posts, so that when said chairs,are nested in positionagainst said end posts each end post and the chair backs adjacent thereto shall collectively present the appearance of an end post, somewhat thickened.

3. The combination, with a table having a top board, a shelf, a drawer, supported by said top board and another drawer supported by said shelf, of a pair of end posts each having an ornamental outline, a number of chairs each provided with folding legs and further provided with a back, the chairs being of such form that with their legs folded they may be nested in pairs with the two chair backs of each pair fitted directly together, each pair of chairs being of proper size to fit in between said top board, and said shelf, the back of each chair having a general outline like that of the end posts, and eachpair of chair backs fitted against one of said end posts.

Signed at New York city, in the county 1 of New York and State of New York, this 3d day of April, 1923.

BENJAMIN MONTGOMERY YOUNG. 

